Specialization of "event" in URL would be great

[paul-hammant]

See URL https://its-airborne.org/covid19-timeline#event-airborne-transmission (no need to click)

'event' to the right of the # is a fixed choice of TimelineJS3

It'd be great there were a way of specifying another word/phrase. In this case 'study' -> https://its-airborne.org/covid19-timeline#study-airborne-transmission

[JoeGermuska]

All references to that hash prefix are centralized in src/js/timeline/Timeline.js so this is not an extremely burdensome change.

I can't project when we might work on this; in the meantime, we'd take a pull request!

[paul-hammant]

No probs - low priority. I had a look and might be able to do that PR

[JoeGermuska]

I haven't taken a look at your PR yet, but in case you overlooked it, the JSON configuration format supports explicit declaration of the unique_id for each. We've opted to keep it out of the spreadsheet configuration to control complexity.

Sorry I neglected to mention this before!

[paul-hammant]

I might do some Python, then, to conditionally write those unique_id keys. Obviously on the data at rest. I already have some to sort the entries by date ... my biggest timeline had gotten out of hand!

[paul-hammant]

Dammit, I'm based on https://github.com/thecdil/timelinejs-template and it's behind on releases. I'll make a PR to Will too.

[paul-hammant]

Problem: that's still prepending event-

I've an update to 3.9.1 for Jekyllized thecdil/timelinejs-template, and I've attempted to use unique_id ...

https://paul-hammant.github.io/timelinejs-template/example.html#event-slide-packers-meadows-fire

TimelineJS3 is prepending 'event'. My intention here is to have article, study or other context sensitive human-picked replacement to event. In theCDIL's example JSON, I've attempted that with slide as it fits what the example timeline is about:

.. but event- is still being prepended :(